Tracy Letts

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Tracy Letts (2013)

Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ) is an American actor and playwright . He received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater for his play August: Osage County , the Tony Award 2008 and the Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award for a play that is also performed in the German-language edition under the title Eine Familie at numerous theaters.

Life

Tracy Letts, son of actor Dennis Letts and the bestseller - author Billie Letts was initially an actor as well and made his debut in 1988 in the film Paramedics - The anarchists of the ambulance , the performances in nearly twenty television series and films such as The Girl and the photographer (1999) followed.

He also began his work as a playwright and wrote the play Killer Joe in 1995 , which was played off-Broadway for nine months in 1998 with the actors Scott Glenn , Amanda Plummer , Michael Shannon and Sarah Paulson . The play was successfully filmed in 2011 , directed by William Friedkin as Killer Joe with Matthew McConaughey in the lead role of Killer Joe Cooper . Letts worked with Friedkin on the film.

Letts was in 2002 a member of the ensemble of the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago . After he for his drama Man from Nebraska was in 2004 nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for the theater, he received in 2005 was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for the lead role in the listed there piece The Dresser by Ronald Harwood . In 2006 he wrote the screenplay for the horror film Bug, directed by William Friedkin , based on his play of the same name.

His greatest success as a playwright was with the play August: Osage County , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 2008 , the Tony Award for Best Play and the 2007 Joseph Jefferson Award for a Play. In German-language productions of August: Osage County under the title Eine Familie , Kirsten Dene, who was awarded the Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring , played Violet Weston and Dörte Lyssewski played Barbara Fordham at the Vienna Burgtheater , Barbara Petritsch played Matti Fae , Nana Krüger played Karen at Ernst German theater , Mechthild Grossmann the Violet Weston at Schauspielhaus Bochum and Falk Rockstroh . The productions were carried out by Alvis Hermanis at the Vienna Akademietheater and Enrico Lübbe at the Nuremberg State Theater . The work was successfully filmed in 2013 with Meryl Streep in the lead role of Violet Weston under the title In August in Osage County - Director: John Wells .

In 2008 there was also a nomination for the Joseph Jefferson Award for the piece Superior Donuts . In 2010 he was for the lead role in the play American Buffalo by David Mamet nominated, which was performed at the Steppenwolf Theater, for a Joseph Jefferson Award. He received another nomination for this award for his drama Killer Joe , which was staged at Chicago's Profiles Theater.

Letts played the Senator and later CIA boss Andrew Lockhart in the US series Homeland from 2013 to 2014 . In 2017 he appeared in Greta Gerwig's tragic comedy Lady Bird as Larry McPherson and in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Die Verlegerin as Frederick "Fritz" Beebe .

Works (selection)

  • Killer Joe (1993)
  • Bug (1996)
  • Man from Nebraska (2003)
  • August: Osage County (2007)
  • Superior Donuts (2008)
  • Three Sisters (2009)

Filmography (selection)

Honourings and prices

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Lockhart (Character)
  2. ↑ In August in Osage City - Critique of the Time
personal data
SURNAME Letts, Tracy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma, United States